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Klappentext This set comprises two paperback volumes. The first volume! The Western Medical Tradition! 800BC1800AD! examines the system of medical ideas that went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC! and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. The second volume! The Western Medical Tradition! 18002000! describes the most important people! events! and transformations of the last two centuries of Western medicine. It contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after WW II. Zusammenfassung This set comprises two paperback volumes. The first volume! The Western Medical Tradition! 800BC-1800AD! examines the system of medical ideas that went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC. The second volume! The Western Medical Tradition! 1800-2000! is a detailed account! which describes the most important people! events! and transformations in 'Western' medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Western Medical Tradition! 800BC-1800AD: Introduction; 1. Medicine in the Greek world! 800-50BC; 2. Roman medicine! 250BC-200AD; 3. Medicine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; 4. The Arab-Islamic medical tradition; 5. Medicine in medieval western Europe! 1000-1500; 6. Medicine in early modern Europe! 1500-1700; 7. The eighteenth century; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. The Western Medical Tradition! 1800-2000: 1. Medicine in transformation! 1800-50; 2. The rise of science in medicine! 1850-1913; 3. Continuity in crisis: medicine! 1914-45; 4. Medical enterprise and global response! 1945-2000.
